Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pursuit of this goal, Dulles displayed the single-mindedness of a track star training for the Olympics. Dashing family hopes that he would follow his father into the Presbyterian ministry, he built himself a dual career as one of the nation's highest-priced international lawyers and outstanding nonprofessional diplomats. As senior partner of the Wall Street law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, he worked into a practice that included half the governments of Europe. His part-time public service, which got under way at Versailles when he acted as a counsel to the World War I U.S. Peace Commission...
...bemused ease to be expected of a man who has done the same thing many times before; Grace Kelly's blonde beauty remains intact despite the remarkably silly lines she is made to say, and Ava romps delightfully with baby elephants and giraffes in the intervals between her pursuit of Gable...
...agents to a slapstick comedy of Keystone Cops vintage. Trying desperately to hide the plans, Potts teeters on the window ledge of a Moscow hotel, temporarily loses himself among the parading delegates of an East Berlin World Peace Congress, leaps dizzily from rooftop to rooftop with police in hot pursuit...
Behind all the diverse acts of Congress and the Executive, said Eisenhower, lay his "clearly defined purpose," to strengthen freedom and faith in freedom both at home and abroad. In pursuit of this objective, the Administration had scored some notable successes abroad. Said Ike: "Berlin and Korea have been two of the scenes chosen by the Communist world for flagrant acts of aggression since World War II. Today precisely these same two places present dramatic evidence of the will of free men to stay free and to make freedom work...
...punishment: deportation. A "neutral alien," born in Argentina (of Scottish-Irish parents), Haymes entered the U.S. in 1937. He forfeited his right to U.S. citizenship in 1944, the Government said, by claiming exemption from the draft, and thus re-entered the country illegally when he returned from his romantic pursuit of the rollicking Rita. A "technicality," retorted Haymes, who learned that both his estranged wife and Rita were, as the tabloids said, "ready to stand...